Ten Quotes

I was never a Boy Scout, but oh, I wanted to be one when I was a kid about ten or eleven years old. But there wasn't anyplace where I could ever join the Boy Scouts.

I took five years on the first volume, five years on the second volume, and ten years on the third volume.

It slaps your dignity just right. I loved the idea of these proud, dignified black men, and I saw the older ones wounded, and it wounded me ten times as much because I couldn't stand seeing them hurt like this.

The Director of the Laboratory, George Reynolds, was most supportive of my efforts to work independently. There followed for ten years a glorious time for research.

Although I am a young leader, I actually came to it strangely quite late. I have a different perspective, partly because of my family, partly because of what I did for ten years: negotiating trade deals, working out in Central Asia doing assistance projects.

Our fifty principal cities contain 39.3 per cent of our entire German population, and 45.8 per cent of the Irish. Our ten larger cities only nine per cent of the entire population, but 23 per cent of the foreign.

I know a fellow who's as broke as the Ten Commandments.

The lowest budget U.S. films are ten times times better than shooting in Tibet.

Ten days that shook the world.

If God would have wanted us to live in a permissive society He would have given us Ten Suggestions and not Ten Commandments.

If any of our songs ever did make it on the top ten, I'd disband the group immediately.

I hate the industry even more now, no bands get nurtured anymore. Labels only spend money promoting acts they know will be Top Ten. I find it offensive spending $2 million on a video.

If you want something, it will elude you. If you do not want something, you will get ten of it in the mail.

I've been watching politics for 35 or 40 years and you just never know. You can have one person win the Iowa caucus and then the whole picture changes ten minutes later. The same thing can happen again after New Hampshire. I have no idea what's going to happen with our country in the future.

You would think that with ten super-famous people in one movie, it's gonna be ten times more popular or viewed, but on some level, they can cancel each other out.

I've built a solid career there, but America's ten times the size. Now that we're onto the third record, I feel like the stars have aligned and American audiences are embracing my music even more.

Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.

Most of the top actors and actresses may be working in ten or twelve films at the same time, so they will give one director two hours and maybe shoot in Bombay in the morning and Madras in the evening. It happens.

Praise and criticism seem to me to operate exactly on the same level. If you get a great review, it's really thrilling for about ten minutes. If you get a bad review, it's really crushing for ten minutes. Either way, you go on.

I was a bouncer for ten years in New York City.

If you look at the charts every year, there may be five or ten memorable songs from each year.

For me, I've always taken being on a set as my school, because I've been working since I was ten.

When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work.

Threescore years and ten is enough; if a man can't suffer all the misery he wants in that time, he must be numb.

I did six series for the BBC and that was enough. I've been writing for ten years, which is more challenging artistically.

We could hang around for ten years and nobody would care enough to identify us. Therein lies the horror.

Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?

I think the inflation prospects for the U.S. over the next five or six, seven years, are quite serious. You cannot have a bumper crop in apples without the value or the price of each apple falling. The Fed has had the largest increase in the monetary base in the history of the U.S., from colonial times to the present, times ten.

I spent ninety percent of my money on wine, women and song and just wasted the other ten percent.

The only thing that's really riled me up in the last ten years has been the White Stripes. That's the one band that's gotten me competitive, and that's good.